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Proud Mary Theatre Company’s very own Eve Begelman, who plays Small Alison in our upcoming production of “Fun Home,” will be performing at the prestigious Piccolo Spoleto Festival this weekend in Charleston.

Eve, 15, will be part of the “Piccolo Spoleto Rising Stars” program now In its 10th year that presents artistically gifted students ages 9 through 18.

The goal of the Rising Stars Series is to provide a high
profile performance venue that focuses on the many artistically gifted students
in the Southeast. Artistic disciplines
include classical dance, creative writing, classical music, theatre, and visual
arts.

Eve in the only musical theatre performer in the six-day
event.

Eve Begelman has performed as vocalist, actor, and violinist since the age of seven.
As a scholar in the 92nd Street Y Recanati- Kaplan program for voice, Eve
appeared as a soloist with the Orchestra of St. Lukes in a NYC premiere of Maximus
Musicus and as a guest soloist with the Christian McBride Trio. During her
time as a member of the Manhattan Girls Chorus, she performed at Carnegie Hall
with Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic. In 2018, Eve performed the role
of Viola in Twelfth Night at the American Shakespeare Center summer
program and in the South Carolina Governor’s School Discovery drama program.
Regional theater credits include Young Juliette in For What it’s Worth,
Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray, Katie Spoonapple in Dear Edwina. Eve
has performed in the Midtown International Theatre Festival and the Dream Up
Festival in New York City. In May 2019, Eve was selected to perform at the
Peace Interludes Series at the Peace Center. Eve is a rising sophomore at
the Fine Arts Center and Wade Hampton High School.

Winner of Best Musical, Best Book and Best Score,
“Fun Home” by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori is based on the best-selling graphic
novel by Alison Bechdel, “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic” and set in the Bechdel
family FUNeral home.

“Fun Home” runs June 7-16, 2019 at the West Main Artists
Co-Operative, 578 West Main St. in Spartanburg. Shows are Friday-Saturdays at 8
p.m. and Sundays at 3 pm. with one Thursday show June 13 at 8 p.m. Tickets are
$15-25. For more information, visit www.proudmarytheatre.com.

SPARTANBURG, SC – The
award-winning Proud Mary Theatre Company has proudly unveiled its third season
of compelling stories about the LGBTQ+ community with a saucy lineup that
includes everything from vintage campy vampire lesbians to fresh Broadway Elizabethan
punk delivered by the ground-breaking 1980s all-women rock band The Go-Go’s.

“We have an incredibly appealing
season this year,” said Artistic Director Sandy Staggs. ”From classic drag camp
to the emotional, hilarious and heartfelt The Pink Unicorn, and
the hot new Head Over Heels musical with
a super-catchy score (and smashing arrangements) that people will remember from
the 1980s, this season is definitely hip with crowd-pleasers across-the-board.”

The 2019-20 slate of shows begins in the Halloween season
with the Upstate premiere of the 1984 classic campy romp through time, Charles
Busch’s Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, on
October
25 – November 2 with some midnight shows planned.

Vampire Lesbians of Sodom centers on two eponymous immortal vampire lesbians locked in eternal, if comic, antagonism after surviving the downfall of the mythical Biblical city in question, and crossing paths again in 1920s/1930s Broadway/Hollywood, and for one final showdown in Las Vegas in the 1980s.This play is an Official Upstate Pride Week Event!

Proud Mary Theatre Company’s road show this season beginning
in February 2020 is a brand new play The
Pink Unicorn that is currently having its Off-Broadway premiere with
Tony-Winner Alice Ripley (Next to Normal).
In this one-woman-show by Elise Forier Edie, a southern Christian widow’s
life is suddenly upended when her 14-year-old daughter Jolene announces she is
“gender queer” and starts a chapter of the Gay and Straight Alliance at Spartan
High School (in Texas coincidentally).

Sordid Lives, the cult classic play that launched two films and a TV series by Del Shores is on the bill by popular demand in June 2020 after sold-out shows of his controversial Southern Baptist Sissies last summer. In this southern funeral comedy, a “colorful” family must come to grips with their own demons and the accidental death of the elderly family matriarch during a clandestine meeting in a seedy motel room with her much younger, married neighbor.

For its second-ever musical, the company will go Head Over Heels in August 2020 with the regional premiere of this bold new musical comedy from the visionaries that rocked Broadway with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Avenue Q and Spring Awakening, follows the escapades of a royal family on an outrageous journey to save their beloved kingdom from extinction — only to discover the key to their realm’s survival lies within each of their own hearts.This laugh-out-loud love story is set to the music of the iconic 1980’s all-female rock band The Go-Go’s, including the hit songs, “We Got the Beat,” “Our Lips Are Sealed,” “Vacation,” Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven is a Place on Earth” and “Mad About You.”

The final play next year, The
Pussy Grabber Plays: Stories Inspired by The Women Who Came Forward, also a regional premiere,
is a fundraiser for local nonprofits, with 100 percent of the proceeds benefiting
women’s causes, including those supporting lesbians and trans women.”

The Pussy Grabber Plays is a series of
short plays created by some of the most highly acclaimed women writing for
theater today. Based on interviews with seven of the 19 women who have spoken
outabout their encounters with Donald Trump, the
plays offer insights into each woman’s life, her decision to stand up, and the
fallout she’s faced. Laced with humor, fear, heartbreak and anger, The Pussy Grabber Plays is political theater at its
best: telling the untold stories about women who have risked everything to
speak truth to power. Special fundraiser! The Pussy Grabber Plays box
office opens in summer 2020.

Our Season 3 Reveal
The award-winning Proud Mary
Theatre Company, South Carolina’s Alternative Theatre, is proud to announce our
Season 3 Lineup of 5 Fantastic plays next season. Three Mainstage plays, a
Musical and a BONUS show just in time for the election!
This FREE EVENT will be at the May Monthy Mingle with Out + About Upstate at
HEIRLOOM – A MILL EATERY @ Westgate Mall at 7 p.m. The Mingle starts at 6 p.m.
MORE INFO: https://www.facebook.com/events/287395628835280/

Proud Mary Theatre is thrilled to announce that Robert Fuson, our very first director will return in August to direct “Boy” by Anna Ziegler.

Inspired by a true story, a well-intentioned doctor In the 1960s
convinces the parents of a male infant to raise their son as a girl after a
botched circumcision. Two decades later, the repercussions of that choice
continue to unfold amongst the tricky terrain of finding love and the confusion
of sexual identity.

Robert Fuson is the Artistic Company
Manager of the Guerrilla Shakespeare Theatre Company. After graduating Furman
University and the Warehouse Theatre Conservatory Program, he has worked as a
director, actor, stage manager, and sound designer across the upstate. He is
excited return back to Proud Mary after directing their debut production of I Am My Own Wife (Winner of Best Play,
Actor, Lighting and Sound Design at SCTA 2017 and Best Choreography at SETC
2018). Other noteworthy recent directing accolades include Never Swim Alone at Guerrilla Shakes
(Winner of Best Play, Actor, Lighting and Sound Design at SCTA 2018 and Best
Choreography at SETC 2019), Our Town at the Market Theatre, and assistant directing Much Ado About Nothing at Warehouse Theatre.

“Boy”
will run August 2-11 in Spartanburg (West Main Artists Co-Operative) and
Greenville (location TBA). For more information, visit www.proudmarytheatre.com.

Proud Mary Theatre Company is proud to announce the stars of our
winter comedy show spectacular PARALLEL LIVES: Tiffany Stewart and Caroline
Davis.

Stewart, veteran of New York and Upstate stages, and Davis, Furman
University Adjunct Professor and co-star of our hilarious “5 Lesbians Eating A
Quiche,” will play multiple characters in the sketch comedy classic written by the dynamic comedy duo Mo Gaffney
(“Absolutely Fabulous”) and Kathy Najimy (“Sister Act” and “Hocus Pocus”).
“Parallel Lives” is directed by Ellen Jones. Sandy Staggs is producer and Alyssia Chaplin is
Stage Manager.

The award-winning PROUD MARY THEATRE COMPANY is now casting for THE BOYS IN THE BAND.

DIRECTED BY JOHN FAGAN

AUDITIONS: Monday, Sept. 10, 7-9 p.m.
West Main Artists Co-Operative, 582 West Main Street in Spartanburg
SHOWDATES: Oct. 26-28 & Nov. 1-3
All rehearsals SUNDAYS-THURSDAYS will be at the West Main Artists Co-Operative in Spartanburg.

In his Upper East Side apartment, Michael is throwing a birthday party for Harold, a self-avowed “thirty-two-year-old, pockmarked, Jew fairy,” complete with surprise gift: “Cowboy,” a street hustler. As the evening wears on – fueled by drugs and alcohol – bitter, unresolved resentments among the guests come to light when a game of “Truth” goes terribly wrong.
This groundbreaking play premiered Off-Broadway in 1968 and ran for 1,001 performances. It was subsequently made into a feature film with the original cast, directed by Academy Award-winner William Friedkin (“The Exorcist”).
In 2018, The Boys in the Band made its Broadway debut at the Booth Theatre in an unprecedented production featuring a cast of entirely out-and-proud gay actors including Jim Parsons, Zach Quinto, Matt Bomer and more. “Its reappearance now is a triumph of liberation.” -Jesse Green, The New York Times